Accidents 

Monday, July 1, 2019, 05:36 PM – Poetry and Writing The other night at the Celebration of Life of my friend Marcel, I fainted, hit my head and knocked myself out. He would have loved that I left his party on a stretcher. Marcel the marine engineer who spent a good part of his career…

The Ride

Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 04:19 PM – Poetry and Writing Marcel, you’re a pirate, a dreamera bugger, a spinner of yarn,you are one of my fondest memories.Guitar, crackling fire, a few friends,the ocean A-framed. If only the world could drift off likewe did that night,bodies opening to new trust. In your fourth round,still standing you…

Meditation

Thursday, January 10, 2019, 01:06 PM – Inspiring It’s hard to explain why I meditate or sit. I think it’s just playing with awareness and relaxing into myself and the present moment. Early trauma apparently divorces us from both. It’s really an exercise in being friends with your mind. Loosening it. Letting feeling and sensation…

Inspiring school in Harlem: what if we grounded ourselves in our bodies from early on?

Inspiring school in Harlem: what if we grounded ourselves in our bodies from early on?

Monday, December 3, 2018, 03:39 PM – Inspiring One of the most inspiring parts of the Transformative Learning conference at Columbia U this year was a visit that we arranged to the Thurgood Marshall Lower School in Harlem. Wow. These students practice gratitude, compassion, checking in to their feelings, reflection, meditation daily. They even have…